Mary Louis Academy - Crusader Yearbook (Jamaica, NY)

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'time out to tell us that several prominent elections were won last week by T. M. L. A. Alumnae members . . . that of the Most Reckless Mail Truck Driver of New York City by Beatrice Schmitt, Miss Pickle Queen of l957 by Agnes Wagner and the Most Valuable Drummer in the Philharmonic by Loretta Trefcer. She also stated that Maureen Pugh, first member of the Class of '47 to be married, is the mother of two boys and Maureen Kathleen and that Virginia Hay and Ellen Finnigan are the talk of New York this season . . . the former as the rightful successor to Pietro Yon and the latter as the author of a book on well-tested advice to teen-agers entitled The Faculty and You. After chatting for a while, we were led by Edith Pinnegar, graduate nurse, to a neat little room occupied by Anna Vitola, editor of Ladies' Home Jour- nal. Fidgeting as usual, she informed us that Joan Hartmann and Jean Henneburg are now employed by the U. N. as Spanish secretaries. Soon she turned on her portable radio and we heard Ellen Dwyer, art teacher and lec- turer, discuss Vera Power's painting, The Snowflake. Barbara Barrett, John Power's latest discovery, was her guest for the evening. Following this inter- esting program was a news broadcast which dealt chiefly with the educational problem. We learned that Joan Tarsney, President of the Board of Education, was trying to get an Anti-Homework Bill through the legislature. This pro- gressive measure, affirmed the commentator, provides severe penalties for teachers who undermine a pupil's morale by assigning written homework. Violently opposing this bill is Mary Cahill, head of the Teachers Union. As we were about to bid Anna goodbye, Joan Donoghue, who is now the owner of a stylish dress shop, and Marie Louise Seltzer, who runs a fashion store on 57th Street, came in to say hello, Before we left, Joan told us that Dolores Gerard had recently won the American National Mathematics Award. On the way upstairs to the cafeteria, we met Mary Toner, the newly elected President of R. H. Macy, Inc., and Maureen Collins, President of the Garment Workers' Union of New York City. They informed us that T. M. L. A.'s grads are well represented in the field of modern sports by Agnes Krug who is now head football coach of Notre Dame. They had also heard from Agnes Meehan and Catherine Drew who had ingeniously passed their Civil Service Exams . . . the former as a matron in a Women's Penitentiary and the latter as Gate-keeper at Beth lsrael. At the door of the cafeteria, Maureen Tansey, whose four sons are future Brooklyn Dodger material, was discussing life in Hollywood with Rosemary Dunn, stand-in for Peggy Ann Garner. At one of the tables, Grace McCann, former buyer for Loeser's, was going over her wedding plans with Carmelia Pesiri who had just celebrated her anniversary. Joan Lardner, who was at a near-by table, told us Cris Akin, noted critic of modern art, is planning to take an apartment in Greenwich Village. Then, as we left the hospital we felt hopeful that in the near future we would once again meet these girls with whom we had spent so many happy moments. DOLORES MAHER LEONORE MCALONEN GRACE MCCANN MAUREEN REID si-,S

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